Tommy Mello

And if they move the puck on you, okay, you just got to shift your views and your skills and capabilities and get out in front of it.

You know, so right now they're trying to make things illegal and changing legal rules and stuff.

It's like, okay, get your real estate license, do things better, do things cleaner.

It's not that difficult.

It's just, are you nimble enough and have enough grit to figure it out?

Well, here's my thing.

The good thing about real estate and real estate investing is you can't...

fudge the numbers.

I could give you my LLCs.

You can go to the County Recorder's website.

You can see every property I've ever taken down in my life, every property I've ever touched and been associated with.

My track record is there.

But you were a better marketer.

Well, you know what it is right now?

There's an epidemic going on with social media.

Every ding dong with a ring light and Chad GBT thinks that they're a guru, you know, and that's really what you're trying to say is like, where's that line?

And I think it's up to the consumer, the person to vet a savvy entrepreneur always does their research in person.

its entirety before making a sound business decision.

And when you're broke and you have a lot of hope, it's easy to get preyed on.

It's easy for somebody who's a slick talker that can say a couple magic words to think you're going to push a button and money's going to rain from the sky from some new AI super tool that's going to do all your deals for you.